The business community, especially that part involved with high technology, has long embraced the notion that progress is an evolutionary process that comes with markets, competition, and the survival of the fittest. In the world of the computer, the idea of evolutionary change has been applied to almost every aspect of the field. The software evolution metaphor offers a certain amount of insight ...
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Deduplication identifies and eliminates redundant information, thereby reducing volumes. Technology savvy industries such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications are already adopting deduplication. However, the technology can be costly, can consume a lot of processing resources and energy, and is not well suited to all users.
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To eliminate cables and provide installation flexibility, consumers want the various elements of their home-entertainment systems to communicate wirelessly. In response, vendors are developing wireless high-definition video technologies.
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An updated take on Amdahl's analytical model uses modern design constraints to analyze many-core design alternatives. The revised models provide computer architects with a better understanding of many-core design types, enabling them to make more informed tradeoffs.
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Based on a preventive, development-before-the-fact philosophy that does not allow errors in the first place, the Universal Systems Language has evolved over several decades, offering system engineers and software developers a language they can use to solve problems previously considered next to impossible to solve with traditional approaches.
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The vehicles used to explore the Martian surface require a high degree of autonomy to navigate challenging and unknown terrain, investigate targets, and detect scientific events. Increased autonomy will be critical to the success of future missions. In July 1997, as part of NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission, the Sojourner rover became the first spacecraft to autonomously drive on another planet. The ...
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The Land Information System (LIS) is a multiscale hydrologic modeling and data assimilation framework that integrates the use of satellite and ground-based observational data products with advanced land-surface modeling tools to aid several application areas, including water resources management, numerical weather prediction, agricultural management, air quality, and military mobility assessment.
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A model based on genetic algorithms views the allocation of people and private vehicles as an optimization problem, anticipating traffic congestion effects and adjusting the infrastructure accordingly.
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